Might not be brothers-in-arms, exactly– but yeah. This situation isn't one that anyone can navigate alone. [He shakes his head. That faint note of skepticism doesn't go unnoticed, and he finds himself replying more firmly in turn:] The people who learn to gamble with their trust have a chance at making it through. The ones who don't never leave the starting line.

[He's made his gambles countless times– and lost many of them, admittedly. Looking back on the past couple of weeks, thinking about all the enemies – hidden and unhidden – that he's made, Adam finds that he can count on one hand the people in his life that he'd place his trust in unquestioningly.

But without even those one or two people backing him up, he's certain he wouldn't have made it as far as he has. It's that thought that still keeps him capable of trust at all, he supposes.]